Drop the Charge against Greek Protestors! Stand in Solidarity with Greek Revolutionaries!

On 15 July, 15,000 Greek protesters demonstrated against austerity at the Anthes’ Syntagma Square outside of parliament. They were opposed to the parliamentary majority approval of Syriza’s new memorandum and austerity policy. During the demonstration, the police arrested more than 50 protesters. This includes a dozen or so members from the Anticapitalist Left Cooperation for the Overthrow ( Antarsya ), with two of them from the Organization of Communist Internationalists of Greece (OKDE-Spartacus). One of the two comrades is a social worker and union activist, and the other is a secretary of the Athens’ bookstore workers’ union. On 22 July, the Greek authority announced the trial of the arrested protesters. The two members of OKDE-Spartacus and other seven protesters are now formally charged with assaulting the police and disturbing public order.

We believe that the protesters are engaged in the struggle for their and other Greek working people’s livelihood and democratic rights, and the struggle for taking their fate into their own hands. Their demands are legitimate and justified.On the contrary, the Syriza leadership betrayed their promises, and surrendered to the capitalist class system. Now Syriza is bankrupt politically. The repression against revolutionaries is another testimony to the fact that the so-called anti-austerity, left wing government cannot be trusted to oppose austerity, or to provide a reform program that protests the interests of the working class and fundamentally resolves the Greek economic crisis. Now what Greece and the world need is a class struggle by the working class and all other working people that can go beyond the limits of capitalism.

We demand the Greek government drop the charges against the protesters, including the two members of the OKDE-Spartacus!

We call for solidarity from Greek and European working class to unite against austerity and capitalist police repression!

We express our full support for the Greek people’s slogans: end the memorandum, and cancel the debt!